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Policy

A documentary about training AI on real people raises questions it refuses to answer

Marc Isaacs' new film 'Synthetic Sincerity' blurs fact and fiction to explore how AI learns from human faces and stories. Critics say it skips the hard questions it promises to ask.

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Explained

The 1960s Chatbot That Explains Why You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets

ELIZA, a program built at MIT sixty years ago, tricked people into emotional confessions before anyone had heard the word 'chatbot'. A new book has recovered its lost source code, and the lessons are uncomfortably relevant today.

3 min read
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Policy

DOGE Used AI to Shape Housing Policy. Now HUD Is Blocking Requests to Learn How.

Federal housing officials are withholding more than 100 documents about AI tools used in policymaking, citing legal exemptions that legal observers say have no basis in federal law.

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Policy

Should Your AI Help You Do Anything You Ask, No Matter What?

A prominent tech founder says a properly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. The argument is wilder than it sounds, and more interesting.

3 min read
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Policy

Australia's Government Faces a Deadline on AI: Jobs, Copyright and a Prime Minister's Speech

A landmark address this Wednesday could shape how Australia regulates AI. Workers, artists and investors are all watching.

3 min read
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Everyday AI

A critic who hates chatbots tried dating one. Here is what she found.

Writer Lauren Oyler went in sceptical and came out with something stranger than a verdict. Her essay, adapted for audio, is a rare honest look at what it actually feels like to talk to an AI.

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